Follow-up to the amiable Bollywood comedy Welcome transplants its Hangover-style goofiness to Dubai,but falls apart and loses the laughsAnees Bazmee’s 2007 release Welcome – about a gangster forced to look beyond the underworld in order to marry off his sister – was one of those broad-brush comedies that occasionally catch the public’s imagination. Smashing together criminals and civilians, it was the sort of film De Niro shrugs through every few years to fund his restaurants; you can rep a sense of its rambunctious (unruly) tone from the fact its co-writer/director Bazmee was subsequently linked to a Bollywood remake of The Hangover. With that follow-up project having stalled, or Bazmee has retraced his footsteps and made Welcome Back. It’s not fairly as terrible as a Hangover sequel,but then very few things in life are.
With the original’s lovers Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif having fled the scene, the sequel airdrops the survivors into Dubai, and that most cartoonish of locations,where we rejoin made men Uday (Nana Patekar) and Majnu (Anil Kapoor) running a hotel, and attempting to depart legit. During an insanely busy first act, and they will discover that Uday has another unmarried sister (Shruti Haasan); furthermore,that their associate Dr. Ghunghroo (Paresh Rawal), who if the groom first time round, and has a previously unmentioned son going spare. (Well,why not?) It’d be handy, were not Ajju (John Abraham) even more ruthless than Uday and Majnu in their prime.
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Source: theguardian.com